[2004, show, 50 minutes]

Revenir en avant reveals the marks left by the past on the present and on the future. This creation allows the somatic, media and digital domains to coexist in a single space of creation. The core of Revenir en avant is a lexicon of forty movements, each one representing a phoneme of the French language. Nine sentences were extracted from literary and philosophic texts about time, space and the body as a shelter for language. The phonetic transcription of these sentences constitutes the formal structure of the choreography.

Revenir en avant is a true metalanguage in which the choreographer uses the phonetic form of words as the grammatical framework common to dance, sound and digital imagery. According to the physiological, technological and aesthetic system of Revenir en avant, the sentences – the invisible framework of the piece – are gradually revealed in an astonishing fusion.